The last time Variety caught up with Sky News chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay, he was hunkered down in a military compound near the Kabul airport, where thousands of Afghan civilians were awaiting evacuation as the Taliban watched on.
Seven months later — after a stint in Brazil’s Amazon and a quick trip home to the U.K. for Christmas in between — he’s coming up on two months in Ukraine. Ramsay and his producer, Dominique van Heerden, have been in Kiev for around a week, and in the last few days, it’s become much harder to get any shut-eye.
“The problem is, we’re not sleeping an awful lot at night because of the bombing, so everything just becomes a bit of a blur,” says Sky’s longest-serving foreign correspondent. “It is very challenging. The bombing is very heavy, and with bombing, it can be very indiscriminate.”
The team...
Seven months later — after a stint in Brazil’s Amazon and a quick trip home to the U.K. for Christmas in between — he’s coming up on two months in Ukraine. Ramsay and his producer, Dominique van Heerden, have been in Kiev for around a week, and in the last few days, it’s become much harder to get any shut-eye.
“The problem is, we’re not sleeping an awful lot at night because of the bombing, so everything just becomes a bit of a blur,” says Sky’s longest-serving foreign correspondent. “It is very challenging. The bombing is very heavy, and with bombing, it can be very indiscriminate.”
The team...
- 2/26/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Stuart Ramsay has covered 18 separate wars and numerous natural disasters during his 30 years as a reporter but even he admits the scenes unfolding around him this week in Afghanistan have been unique.
“The circumstances and the desperation and the sadness is the same in every scenario but this is slightly different,” the Sky News chief reporter tells Variety in an exclusive interview. “Because it is a sort of end to a 20-year campaign that’s ended in failure.”
For now, danger crackles in the air but hasn’t yet smashed its way through the doors of the military compound where Ramsay and his small team are hunkered down — just metres away from the Taliban — near the airport in Kabul. Outside the compound, thousands of terrified civilians plead their case to the military and interpreters trying to process evacuees, while gun shots are occasionally fired as the Taliban try to bring some order.
“The circumstances and the desperation and the sadness is the same in every scenario but this is slightly different,” the Sky News chief reporter tells Variety in an exclusive interview. “Because it is a sort of end to a 20-year campaign that’s ended in failure.”
For now, danger crackles in the air but hasn’t yet smashed its way through the doors of the military compound where Ramsay and his small team are hunkered down — just metres away from the Taliban — near the airport in Kabul. Outside the compound, thousands of terrified civilians plead their case to the military and interpreters trying to process evacuees, while gun shots are occasionally fired as the Taliban try to bring some order.
- 8/20/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
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